Przedstawiam pracę, która powstała na konkurs zatytułowany Joy-T. Tematem było stworzenie małego sklepu (powierzchnia miała nie przekraczać 10m2) z podkoszulkami. Poniżej plansze wraz z dołączonym opisem (w języku angielskim).
Every person must have seen a paper cutout of silly figures holding hands. This idea is very simple – even a kindergarten kid can execute it – but involves some powerful formal tools: multiplication, uniformity and symmetry.
The repetitive rhythm of folded shapes has symbolic resemblance to… the T-shirt. A ‘Tee’ is mass produced, multiplication in purest form. It is ubiquitous, there is no other piece of clothing as popular as it. There are millions of shirts available, manufactured by thousands of companies, they come in different sizes, but the shape is all the same – perfect uniformity. The cutout comes blank, it’s up to you to paint the faces on the silly paper people – the same with T-shirts if you want to have something unique and original you have to paint it yourself. The sight of people holding hands has been used around the world as a familiar, friendly symbol, so is the T-shirt – the most egalitarian of them all – worn by Hollywood superstars, politicians, the rich, the poor, across all nationalities and ethnicities, girly-Tees as well as those worn by men.
When designing the shop I had this folded paper cutout in my mind all the time. That is why I decided to form the store front to resemble t-shirts holding sleeves.
With such strict area constraints the shop needed to be quite flexible. There was no space to waste, no place for building ‘altars’ of fashion, where single items would eat up precious wall budget. Again the folded paper gave me a hint. The main idea is to use extending scissor rails. You can extend the rack you want to check out, just like you would unfold a paper harmonica. When you’re done, just push it back, so that it doesn’t stand in the way to the other T-shirts.